Trapped in infinite load screen in expedition

[Alfon]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I knew I shouldn't have tried the expedition, I was having so much fun with the normal game but they tempted me with the ship.

I got to the first meeting spot or however you guys call it in english, "punto de encuentro". I got out of the game and now... Now I can't go back. Infinite loop. What can I do? I can't go back to my original world either?

[Liq-Fu]

same issue for me :(

[Alfon]

I managed to get into the game by clicking properties and turning off the steam cloud saves. Try and see how it goes. But I wouldn't remove this thread, maybe we can help other people with the same problem.

[smurfy]

Try turning multiplayer off and setting steam to offline
- this has been an infrequent issue for all of the the last few Expeditions (not the Reduxes) with some rendezvous systems seemingly overloaded with player bases to download.

[Alfon]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Try turning multiplayer off and setting steam to offline
- this has been an infrequent issue for all of the the last few Expeditions (not the Reduxes) with some rendezvous systems seemingly overloaded with player bases to download.

I had multiplayer turned off...

[smurfy]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Try turning multiplayer off and setting steam to offline
- this has been an infrequent issue for all of the the last few Expeditions (not the Reduxes) with some rendezvous systems seemingly overloaded with player bases to download.

It's the offline bit that has usually fixed this over the last 18 months it has been happening.

[Alfon]

Originally posted by smurfy:

Originally posted by smurfy:

Try turning multiplayer off and setting steam to offline
- this has been an infrequent issue for all of the the last few Expeditions (not the Reduxes) with some rendezvous systems seemingly overloaded with player bases to download.

It's the offline bit that has usually fixed this over the last 18 months it has been happening.

For me, that didn't work. But I am glad to know it's a well known issue. It probably means that people don't lose their save files as a consequence (it wouldn't have lasted so much if it was that bad).

[DennisM the Diligent]

I had this same problem during some of the expeditions when starting in one of the rendezvous systems. Here are the steps I took to resolve this.

1. Set Steam to offline in the Steam settings
   
2. Start NMS, which will load fairly quickly. Take care of whatever objectives you need in the rendezvous system.
   
3. Warp to a different system that is NOT one of the rendezvous systems.
   
4. Save and quit the game.
   
5. Set Steam to online.

The key is to not save and quit in one of the rendezvous systems. For expeditions, I usually build a base on a planet at least 500 light years away from the expedition route. This avoids the crowded systems which can be slow to load. I save and quit from this base during expeditions.